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by asb
4538 days ago
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The idea that the FSF (and perhaps more specifically, RMS) are holding back GCC technically due to concerns about people working around the GPL dates way back. As people have pointed out, GCC now has a plugin system but I imagine ESR is thinking back to exchanges such as this one, where RMS rejected the contribution of a Java bytecode backend to GCC purely on the grounds that it could be used with proprietary tools using the bytecode as an IR http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg00895.html |
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